{"id":120,"date":"2013-10-25T03:52:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T03:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davedub.co.uk\/davedub\/wordpress\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2023-02-02T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T07:53:07","slug":"davedub-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/davedub.co.uk\/davedub\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"davedub home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/davedub.co.uk\/davedub\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/davedub-home-backdrop-02-2014.jpg\" alt=\"davedub home banner\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"dd_profile_image\" src=\"http:\/\/davedub.co.uk\/davedub\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/davedub-home-photo-10-13.jpg\" alt=\"davedub home banner\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWelcome to my website. This site provides details of my pet projects:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/virtuality.space\/\" target=\"_blank\">motion capture studio, research and development<\/a> &#8211; motion capture, neural networks<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/davedub.co.uk\/davedub\/wordpress\/procedural-animation-in-highfidelity\" target=\"_blank\">procedural character animation system design<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/highfidelity.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">High Fidelity<\/a>, JavaScript, animation<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/animazooanimations.com\/dance-hud-quadro\/\" target=\"_blank\">dance HUD quadro<\/a> &#8211; dance controller &#8211; LSL, 3D UI design, 3D character animation<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Animazoo%20animations\/233\/101\/32\" target=\"_blank\">dubbot<\/a> &#8211; virtual world customer support agent &#8211; C#, LSL, PHP, MySQL<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/animazooanimations.com\" target=\"_blank\">animazoo animations<\/a> &#8211; 3D character animation &#8211; PHP, MySQL, LSL, 3D design<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bvhacker.com\" target=\"_blank\">bvhacker<\/a> &#8211; the notepad equivalent for bvh animation files &#8211; C++, OpenGL, MFC, STL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these projects were implemented over the last ten years. The procedural animation system and bvhacker are open source and are hosted on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/DaveDubUK\/\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>virtual worlds<\/h2>\n<p>I started my first virtual world animation project back in 2007\u00a0with <a href=\"http:\/\/bvhacker.com\">bvhacker<\/a>, a bvh file editor. I then founded <a href=\"http:\/\/animazooanimations.com\">Animazoo animations<\/a>, a\u00a0virtual worlds animation retail outlet\u00a0in Second Life in partnership with Animazoo Ltd, UK (now called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synertial.com\/\">AIQ-Synertial UK<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>By 2014, exciting developments in both hardware (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculusvr.com\/order\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oculus Rift 2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leapmotion.com\/\">Leap Motion<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emotiv.com\/insight.php\">Emotiv Insight<\/a>, general computing power) and software (<a href=\"https:\/\/highfidelity.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">High Fidelity<\/a>\u00a0Inc, SF, USA, the maturation of open source projects like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/\">Blender<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">GIMP<\/a>) had made a lot of previously impossible ideas possible. I bought an Oculus Rift DK2 and undertook an animation project for High Fidelity Inc. to produce a procedural animation system that stored and replayed looped animation data as a series of harmonics (Fourier Series).<\/p>\n<p>I am now opening a motion capture studio in Thailand where I will produce animation assets for sale in High Fidelity&#8217;s virtual world marketplace whilst researching ways to deploy AI driven character animation control systems. <\/p>\n<h2>background<\/h2>\n<p>In a life previous, I was a software developer, specialising primarily in C++ (video processing, network management tools) but also with smattering of Java (device porting for J2ME games).<br \/>\nI have bachelors degree in electrical and electronic engineering (audio systems specialisation) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brunel.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brunel University<\/a> and a masters degree in computer science (multimedia applications and virtual environments, distinction grade) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Sussex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/davedub.co.uk\/davedub\/wordpress\/academic\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSc dissertation<\/a> &#8211; results published by <a href=\"http:\/\/davedub.co.uk\/academic\/docs\/PRESENCE_submission.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Presence Research Initiative<\/a><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&amp;arnumber=1608026&amp;isnumber=33772\" target=\"_blank\">IEEE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>~ davedub january 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Welcome to my website. 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